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• In 1968, his song Black Day in July about the
Detroit riots angered the U.S. Government, who
banned it from airplay and tried to ban the sale
of the album. President Lyndon Johnson publicly
scolded Lightfoot.
• After reading an article in Newsweek about the
sinking of the ore ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald, he
wrote a song to commemorate the disaster. Most
of the lyrics in the song came straight out of the
magazine article. Whenever possible, he meets
with family members of the men who died.
• In 2002, just before playing in his hometown,
he suffered a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
and barely survived. By 2005 he was back on the
road again.
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second rubber bath mat to drape over the side of
the tub. The edge will be nonslip, so you can hold
on for support, and your hands will not slide.
◆ Sunburn happens in the winter, too, especially
on the slopes. Use a cotton ball soaked in cold tea
to ease tight, dry skin. Be sure to apply sunscreen
to your face and wear eye protection when going
out in the snow.
◆ For drains slowed by grease, sprinkle a half-cup
each of salt and baking soda down the drain, and
follow it with an entire kettle or pot of boiling
water.

During World War II, Japanese invasions of rubber-producing countries in the Far East vastly reduced
availability of rubber in the U.S. In the 1940s, the U.S. War Production Board asked General Electric
for help in developing a cheap substitute for rubber so that production of things such as boots and
tires could continue. G.E. hired James Wright, who created a compound after accidentally dropping
some boric acid into silicone oil in 1943.
• It stretched further than rubber; rebounded higher than rubber; was impervious to mold and decay;
and could withstand all temperatures. The only problem was that scientists could find no real use for
the stuff. In 1945, G.E. mailed samples to scientists all over the world, asking them to find a purpose
for it.
• Paul Hodgson happened to attend a party where some of the stuff was brought out. It entertained the
party-goers for hours. He teamed up with the owner of a toy store and Silly Putty outsold everything
else in the company catalog with the exception of a 50 cent box of crayons. Still, the store owner
wasn’t interested in pursuing Silly Putty, so Hodgson split off on his own. In 1950 Hodgson bought a
huge glob of the stuff for $147 and hired a Yale student to separate it into one ounce balls and put it
into plastic eggs, perhaps because Easter was coming up. Several months later when Silly Putty was
mentioned in the “Talk of the Town” section of the New Yorker magazine, Hodgson’s phone rang off
the hook and he collected a quarter million orders in only four days. A few years later, he was racking
up sales of over six million dollars annually. Hodgson was soon a millionaire.
• Today, Binney & Smith, owners of Crayola, own the rights to Silly Putty. It comes in 16 different
colors including glow-in-the-dark, glitter, metallic gold, and hot flourescent colors. There’s also Silly
Putty that changes color depending on the temperature of your hands. You can even buy a fivepound block of Silly Putty for only $79.

◆ If the smell in your cedar chest has faded, bring
it back easily with extra-fine sandpaper. A very
light sanding is all it takes in most cases.
◆ For delicious baked potatoes, boil a pot of
salted water, add whole potatoes with skin,
remove from heat and let stand for 15 minutes.
Finish in oven for a sturdier skin. Start checking
for doneness after 15 minutes in the oven. Baking
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Q: I heard that Luke Perry and Jennie
Garth are planning to do a project
together soon. Is that true? -- Dahlia A.,
via e-mail
A: When I spoke with Luke recently,
he was mum on the subject of Jennie,
but he WAS eager to tell me about his
latest Hallmark Movie Channel movie:
“Goodnight for Justice: Queen of
Hearts,” which premieres Saturday, Jan.
26, and re-airs throughout the week.
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On his love for his “Goodnight” series,

and Westerns in general, Luke told
me: “I don’t need any aliens with my
cowboys. I’ll just take my cowboys
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else. We all talk about Westerns. There
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“What I love about (the “Goodnight”)
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You can still make a good Western.”
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e-mail
A: The Dana Delany-starring medical
drama will return to ABC for its third
season on Feb. 5 at 10/9c with a two-part
season premiere (with the conclusion
airing the following Tuesday). This
season, Dr. Megan Hunt tackles the
biggest case of her career, and her
biggest personal mystery life: Did her
father really commit suicide, or was he
murdered?
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Q: I love this season of “The Biggest
Loser,” but I wondered if they are
nervous about including kids this time
around? -- Harriet W., Owings Mills,
Md.
A: I spoke with host Alison Sweeney and
asked her just that. Being a mom herself,
she told me that the show plans to help
these kids in the best way possible, and

won’t make them submit to the grueling
programs that the adults go through.
“The first thing we did was to take into
consideration the age of the contestants,
and how we could best help and guide
them,” she said. “They don’t live on
the ranch; they are not going to be
competing. We encourage the families
to also change their nutrition choices,
and get them out there and exercising.
This is all done in a kid-friendly way.”
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Q: Can you tell me when Charlie Sheen’s
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season? -- John R., via e-mail
A: The FX comedy -- whose series
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on Jan. 17. The network has ordered 90
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weeks, archaeologists arrived and took the statue of Aphrodite
to France. King Louis XVIII dubbed it the Venus de Milo and
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Crooners Con’d
LEONARD COHEN
• Leonard Cohen was born in Westmount near
Montreal in 1934. He became a published poet
and novelist but found that it didn’t pay very well.
At the age of 32, he went into music hoping to
earn more money, which he did. When a mutual
friend introduced him to Judy Collins, he sang
her a song he’d recently written called Suzanne.
She loved it, recorded it in 1966, and it became a
hit.
• He’s been called the poet laureate of
pessimism, the godfather of gloom, and the
prince of bummers. His songs have been called
‘music to slit your wrists to.’ Anjelica Huston
described him as “part wolf and part angel.”
• Phil Spector produced his album Death of a
Ladies’ Man using his famous “Wall of Sound”
technique, which annoyed Cohen, who preferred
a minimalist sound. During an argument over
the production, Spector allegedly pulled a gun
and threatened to shoot Cohen. The album was a
commercial disaster, with fans complaining they
couldn’t hear Cohen’s voice underneath all the
layers.

◆ You might be surprised to learn that Humphrey Bogart wasn’t
the producers’ first choice for the role of Rick in “Casablanca.” • One of Cohen’s most famous songs is
An actor named George Raft was originally offered the part, Hallelujah which is about characters in the
Bible. It took him five years to complete the
but he turned it down because he didn’t like the script.

song to his satisfaction and he turned out over 80
verses. Many artists have recorded the song and
it’s appeared in numerous soundtracks, including
the movie Shrek.

◆ In 2010, a new species of slug was discovered in the mountains
of Borneo. It is distinguished from other species of slug by its
novel method of mating: It shoots its mate with a so-called love
• When Cohen released a book of poetry and
dart made of calcium carbonate and containing hormones. The drawings called Book of Longing in 2006, a
researchers nicknamed the gastropods “ninja slugs.”
Toronto retailer offered autographed copies to the
◆ If you’re traveling to Kansas anytime soon, be sure to
remember that it is against the law in that state to catch fish
with your bare hands.

first 1,500 people who ordered online. They sold
out within hours and the book quickly climbed to
bestseller status in Canada. When Cohen made
his first public appearance in 13 years at a book
event in Toronto, about 3,000 people showed
up, a crowd so dense the street in front of the
bookstore had to be closed off. Philip Glass later
composed music for the book.

◆ During the original run of the classic 1960s TV series
“Gilligan’s Island,” some viewers took the show rather too
seriously. Several telegrams were sent to the U.S. Coast Guard NEIL YOUNG
asking why the poor people hadn’t yet been rescued.
• Neil Young was born in Toronto in 1945,

and grew up in Omemee, Ontario. The local
elementary school is named after his father.
• He contracted polio in 1951 in one of the
last major outbreaks of the disease in Ontario.
Coincidentally, Joni Mitchell also contracted the
disease during this same outbreak. She was nine
years old at the time.
• He taught himself to play the ukulele before
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killing 108 people and sending another 133 to the
hospital. Accumulated snowfall from a blizzard collapsed
the theater’s roof, which fell down on top of theatergoers.
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information about the bomb to the Soviet Union. The
arrest of Fuchs led authorities to several other individuals,
including Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the U.S.

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Winnipeg, he met Joni Mitchell. He played a song
for her called Sugar Mountain, composed at the
age of 19, in which he laments his lost youth. In
response, Joni composed the song Circle Game.
• In 1966, Young moved to California and
started the band Buffalo Springfield, naming the
band after a brand of steamroller that was parked
on the street at the time. His first album came out
in 1968, the first of 35 studio albums released
over a 40 year time span.
• In 1969, he teamed up with Crosby, Stills, &
Nash. Stills complained that Young “wanted to
play folk music in a rock band.”
• Young launched his solo career in 1970 with
a backup band called Crazy Horse. When band
member Danny Whitten became addicted to
heroin, Young wrote the song The Needle and the
Damage Done. Young kicked Whitten out of the
band in 1972, and he died of a drug overdose that
same night.

Community Events
Singalong Saturdays
Sat, Jan 26th, 2013 at 08:30pm - 11:30pm at the
Pheasant & Quail Pub
Andrew Smith and his band will be hosting weekly
Singalong Saturdays. The pub will be rockin with
the sound of people singing together outstanding
singable songs that we all know and love. It’s NOT
Karaoke, and it’s NOT about whether you are a
great singer. It is the tradition of Irish/Scottish pub
singalongs or the ‘chansonier’ pubs of Quebec where people come together and everyone sings just for the fun of it. Join us at Pheasant & Quail Pub,
3110 Lakeshore Rd, Kelowna. Cost: Call for details
(250) 860-1066 Email: pheasant.quail@shawbiz.ca
EnRICHed Academy Live
Sun, Jan 27th, 2013 at 10:00am to 12:00pm at Mary
Irwin Theatre
A financial literacy course designed to teach
teenagers and young adults how to earn, save
and invest their money in an entertaining and
easy to absorb way. Topics include; credit card
score, investing at a young age, understanding
real estate and stock investing, goal setting and
finding a career that you will enjoy and will excel
in. Mary Irwin Theatre, 421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna.
Cost: Free Event. Ticketing and/or registration info:
Rotary Centre for the Arts Box Office 250-7175304. Sponsored by Royal LePage Kelowna: 250860-1100.
EnRICHed Academy is a video based program
designed so that parents can watch it one section
at a time with their teens/young adults and then
act on the steps provided in the follow-along
workbook including other learning materials.
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Tue, Jan 29th, 2013 at 7:00pm to 9:00pm at Pulp
Fiction Coffeehouse
Calendar Girls - Preview it before we play it! Come
and listen to New Vintage actors read from the
celebrated hit, Calendar Girls. This is a free event
but you must support our hosts by buying a drink
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accessible theatre for all. www.NewVintage.ca
CanUs - Kelowna Community Concert Series
Tue, Jan 29th, 2013 at 7:30pm at Kelowna
Community Theatre
Hot jazz, Dixieland, swing, ragtime, the blues the outstanding musicians of CanUS originate
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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I’m going to adopt a cat
soon, and I’ve never had a pet. My friend told me
that cats aren’t easy to train, so I’m worried. Will it be
difficult to train my cat to use a litter box? -- Sara in
Columbus, Ga.

Make a Colorful Sun Catcher
Make these colorful
window decorations to
brighten your child’s
bedroom during gloomy winter days. When
the glue has dried, these sun catchers will have
the look of stained glass. Help your kids create a
design of a character or object from their favorite
books and stories.
You’ll need:
--Plastic wrap
--Plastic or paper cups
--All-purpose, white household
glue
--Food coloring
--Several thick, black pipe
cleaners in 12-inch lengths
--Ribbon, string or cording
Think about what kind of sun catcher you would
like to make, such as a star, heart or daisy. For
your first project, make it as simple as possible.
Use basic drawings from coloring books to
get yours started, if you wish. As you get more
proficient, make a heart for Valentine’s Day, a
shamrock for St. Patrick’s Day or a decorated egg
for Easter.

Bend and attach pipe cleaners together to get your
desired shape, and glue the shape completely flat
onto a sheet of plastic wrap. Add details by gluing
smaller lengths of pipe cleaner on the inside of
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flower. (It is very important that pipe cleaners
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a coloring-book page. Let dry.
Now it’s time to add the color.
Pour 3-4 tablespoons of glue
into a paper cup. Add 5-10
drops of food coloring, and
stir. Mix glue and food coloring
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to have a rainbow of colors.
Pour the colored glue inside
the pipe-cleaner shape. If you
added details, pour different
colors in the various sections. Let dry completely.
(It usually takes about a day.)
When dry, the colored glue will appear
translucent. Carefully peel off the plastic wrap
from the sun catcher and discard.
Hang your beautiful design in a sunny window
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DEAR SARA: Congratulations on adopting your
first pet! Cats can be great companions. While it’s
difficult to teach a cat to fetch or roll over like a dog,
house training is usually much easier to accomplish.
Cats have a natural instinct to cover up their
droppings. This hides them from predators. A litter
box caters to that instinct.
A kitten that is old enough to be adopted (usually 12
weeks) has typically been taught by its mother how
and where to poop, how to cover it up, and how to
keep itself clean and neat (by washing its fur with its
tongue). You can reinforce this: Set up your new cat’s
litter box, as well as its bedding, toys, food and water,
ahead of time. As soon as you bring your new cat
home, take it to the litter box and let the cat check
it out.
If your cat doesn’t get it the first time, and piddles
elsewhere in the house, don’t scold it. Try to catch it
as soon it happens, pick the cat up and place it in the
litter box. It should connect quickly.
What if your cat refuses to use the litter box and
goes elsewhere? Move the box to a quieter part of
the house. If that doesn’t work, or if the cat appears
lethargic or meows a lot, contact the veterinarian
right away. Cats that don’t use the litter box often are
ill, not stubborn.

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Classifieds

Classifieds go in all four papers: Vernon, Shuswap, Kamloops & Kelowna
To Place A Classified Ad:

Free to good home.
Very friendly spayed
female cat. Haunting
big green eyes and
a beautiful grey and
black striped coat
with white accents.
Litter trained and
good habits. Answers
to her name and lets
you know when she’s
hungry. Well mannered
cat needs excellent
home by the end of
the month. Please call
Sandy 250-515-4215.
Photos available by
email. (Shuswap)

Wanted
Buying
Unwanted Guns
250 832-2982
WANTED: shop or
barn space in Vernon/
Armstrong area large
enough to get a school
bus in. Needs to have a
min 10 foot high door,
and must be at least 36
feet in length.
250 550 4272
Wanted: Purchasing old
Canadian & American
coin collections &
accumulations.
Old
gold
&
sterling!
Private, Prompt &
Confidential. Shuswap
250-548-3670